Pocus wrote:Who among you would be kind enough to write a little doc (half a page and 2 small screenies) of what to do under Vista to see your saved games? This can help us in the future. (I still have XP on all my computers)

Go to 'Program Files'
Click on 'AGEod American Civil War'
Your screen should look like this:

Along the top there is a blue bar.
On the right hand side of the bar there is button 'Compatability Files'
Click on 'Compatability Files'
Your screen should look like this:

Click on 'ACW' from the right hand screen.

Click on 'Saves'

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'Nous voilà, Lafayette'

Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917

I'm totally baffled by this, I just uninstalled BoA as I couldn't even see a directory called Save. I can see the blue bar in Windows Explorer but I only have the first three options - I don't have the "Compatibility Files" option.

I think I will wait until my PC is fixed and I can use XP again unless anyone can suggest anything obvious.
Cheers, Chris

Hobbes wrote:I'm totally baffled by this, I just uninstalled BoA as I couldn't even see a directory called Save. I can see the blue bar in Windows Explorer but I only have the first three options - I don't have the "Compatibility Files" option.

If this problem to which you are referring is with Vista I found the save files for AACW this way:

Start Menu -> Computer
On the left hand side under the folders tab there should be an entry the name of the User (Bob, Steve, Stacey, etc.)

Open up the folder. Open up the folder AppData
AppData -> Local -> Virtual Store -> Program Files -> Ageods American Civil War -> ACW -> Saves

W.Barksdale wrote:If this problem to which you are referring is with Vista I found the save files for AACW this way:

Start Menu -> ComputerOn the left hand side under the folders tab there should be an entry the name of the User (Bob, Steve, Stacey, etc.)

Open up the folder. Open up the folder AppDataAppData -> Local -> Virtual Store -> Program Files -> Ageods American Civil War -> ACW -> Saves

It should be similar to finding BoA Saves. Hope this helps.

So if I understand well, Vista is putting by itself data in the system partition? Wow, it is even better than I thought in this case. Restore your system with Northon Ghost or Acronis, and you lose a bunch of documents.

Hofstadter's Law: "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law."

Pocus wrote:So if I understand well, Vista is putting by itself data in the system partition? Wow, it is even better than I thought in this case. Restore your system with Northon Ghost or Acronis, and you lose a bunch of documents.

Hello,
I have read through this thread and am not sure if this is what my problem is or not. I found the files, and even transfered them into my save game folder that was left mt on the normal file path. But if I try and load a saved game it lists a string that ends in /main.log and crashes to windows. This has only happened after the 1.12 update was installed. If anyone knows why this is happenening, or has had and corrected this problem, I would appreciate any help on fixing this bug.
Thanks
Shield

shield1 wrote:Hello, I have read through this thread and am not sure if this is what my problem is or not. I found the files, and even transfered them into my save game folder that was left mt on the normal file path. But if I try and load a saved game it lists a string that ends in /main.log and crashes to windows. This has only happened after the 1.12 update was installed. If anyone knows why this is happenening, or has had and corrected this problem, I would appreciate any help on fixing this bug. Thanks Shield

I am not aware of anyone moving the saves from the Vista inspired location to the save game folder. I have had no problems with saved games and Vista.

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'Nous voilà, Lafayette'

Colonel C.E. Stanton, aide to A.E.F. commander John 'Black Jack' Pershing, upon the landing of the first US troops in France 1917

I am new to the forums but been playing AACW for a while now...however all of a sudden I got a problem where I couldnt load saved games: Got a critical error message.

I have followed the above steps to locate the saved games (as I am using vista) - however, I don't understand how I now get the saved games to run - do I need to import them into the usual 'saves' directory? - I have tried this and got exactly the same error message.

The game worked fine till about 3 or 4 weeks ago and to my knowledge nothing has changed with settings etc....sorry if I sound dumb! don't know very much about computer stuff.

W.Barksdale wrote:If this problem to which you are referring is with Vista I found the save files for AACW this way:

Start Menu -> ComputerOn the left hand side under the folders tab there should be an entry the name of the User (Bob, Steve, Stacey, etc.)

Open up the folder. Open up the folder AppDataAppData -> Local -> Virtual Store -> Program Files -> Ageods American Civil War -> ACW -> Saves

It should be similar to finding BoA Saves. Hope this helps.

Well found this file no problem also but once again the 99% of the save games are missing somehow? I did at one point turn off that user control thingie I turned it back on again as I thought that might be casuing some issues. Hmmm. Gee I hope they make a patch for vista owners. In a 4 month PBEM game and I can't find my saves Never seen anything like this with VISTA and my other games saved games.

I found this thread after reinstalling Vista and couldnt see my savegame files for love nor money, even though I could load up the saves ok. So thanks to the OP for saving me some bother

Now a "fix" for this for anyone wanting the saves to appear in the Saves folder where they should be. Set the game to run in compatibility mode for XP sp2 and everything works as described in the manual regarding saved games. To do this:

Right-click on the ACW shortcut on the desktop

Go to the Compatibility tab

Tick the boxes for "Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows XP sp2"
and
"Run this program as an administrator"

I guess once you know where to look in Vista its not really a problem, but this works for anyone wanting things to be normal.

Wow, I never knew about that Compatability Button, that is great. I just assumed AGEOD had some feature where they did not want you to have acess to the SAVE files except thru the game - like some sort of anti-cheating thing. I never would have figured this out.., thank you very much.